LESSON 2: ASSUMPTIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF ART

Question 1

Literature has provided key works of art. Among the most popular ones being taught in school are the two Greek epics, what are those?

Answer 1

the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 2

The Sanskrit pieces that are also staples in this field.

Answer 2

Mahabharata and Ramayana

Question 3

is not a factor in determining art.

Answer 3

Age

Question 4

never fails to teach high school students the beauty of love, one that is universal and pure.

Answer 4

Florante at Laura

Question 5

enjoyment in the arts belongs to a higher good, one that lies at the opposite end of base pleasures.

Answer 5

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism

Question 6

One important characteristic of art is that

Answer 6

Art is not nature

Question 7

Art is man’s way of interpreting.

Answer 7

nature

Question 8

Art is just experience. By experience, we mean the?

Answer 8

“actual doing of something”

Question 9

An important aspect of experiencing art is?

Answer 9

its being highly personal, individual, and subjective.

Question 10

shows that it represents different worldviews, religious beliefs, political ideas, social values, kinship structures, economic relations, and historical memory.

Answer 10

Cross-cultural studies of art

Question 11

The functions of art normally fall into three categories. What are those?

Answer 11

These are personal, social or physical functions.

Question 12

is art that performs a physical function in the tea ceremony.

Answer 12

Japanese raku bowl

Question 13

any of the crafts, and industrial design are all types of art that have physical functions.

Answer 13

Architecture

Question 14

always carries a social function.

Answer 14

Political art

Question 15

functions of art are often the most difficult to explain.

Answer 15

The personal functions of art

Question 16

the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the World of Forms. Human beings endeavor to reach the Forms all throughout this life, starting with formal education in school.

Answer 16

Plato’s metaphysics or view of reality

Question 17

claimed that art is just an imitation of imitation.

Answer 17

Socrates

Question 18

He wrote, the “Critique of Judgement,” he considered the judgment of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something that can be universal despite its subjectivity.

Answer 18

Immanuel Kant

Question 19

is fighting for the social dimension of art.

Answer 19

Tolstoy

Question 20

wrote in the thirteenth century of the function of art as an aid to religious teaching

Answer 20

Thomas Aquinas

Question 21

illustrates the genealogy of Christ, starting with the Jewish patriarch Jesse in red at the base of the tree.

Answer 21

The Tree of Jesse

Question 22

The Tree of Jesse in what cathedral and country ?

Answer 22

Chartres Cathedral in France

Question 23

is an example of personal commemoration. Erected in the seventeenth century on the banks of a river between a guest house and a small mosque,

Answer 23

Taj mahal

Question 24

Taj Mahal was a tomb for?

Answer 24

the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan’s favorite wife

Question 25

wears a military uniform as one arm extended, gesturing as if to address his troops.

Answer 25

The emperor Augustus

Question 26

not been a primary reason for creating art.

Answer 26

Art as Self-Expression